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Julianna Newland
Author of All Up in Your Bizness, a practical guide to managing the business side of running a business.
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Nigeria
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigerian novelist whose fiction includes Half of a Yellow Sun, set during the Nigerian Civil War.
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United Kingdom
Kazuo Ishiguro
Nagasaki-born British novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and author of Klara and the Sun.
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Chile
Isabel Allende
Chilean-American writer whose debut novel, The House of the Spirits, became a landmark of Latin American fiction.
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United States
Colson Whitehead
American novelist; The Underground Railroad received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Spanish novelist whose Cemetery of Forgotten Books series begins with The Shadow of the Wind.
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Elena Ferrante
Pseudonymous Italian novelist; My Brilliant Friend opens the four-part Neapolitan Novels.
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Chinua Achebe
Nigerian novelist and critic whose 1958 novel Things Fall Apart is among the most widely read African novels.
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Haruki Murakami
Japanese novelist; Norwegian Wood is his nostalgic story of love and loss in late-1960s Tokyo.
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Brit Bennett
American novelist, author of The Mothers and The Vanishing Half.
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